One of the key priorities of the operation of the Ukroboronprom State Concern's enterprises in 2016 will be strengthening the air defense system of the state, Ukroboronprom Director General Roman Romanov has said.

Assessing the key tasks of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex in 2016 on Channel 5 TV on Wednesday he said that the key tasks for the Ukrainian defense sector in 2016 are aviation and air defense.

He said that first, this concerns strengthening of the air defense system.

"The president and the NSDC [the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine] set this task in 2015," he said, adding that the concern's enterprises have seriously advanced in this direction.

Romanov said that the state concern have found successful solutions in the area of substituting Russian suppliers of aviation electronics for Ukrainian military aircraft by western partners.

The enterprises are working on adaptation of foreign elements to Ukrainian aircraft, he said.